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Try working in military applications, aerospace, tax software, medical devices, banking. Making one mistakes can affect the fates of hundreds if not millions. I

Try working in military applications, aerospace, tax software, medical devices, banking. Making one mistakes can affect the fates of hundreds if not millions. It's way more responsibility and risk than the job you quote. By the way. A dentist gets to try on fake tooth before drilling a real tooth. They actually don't have a choice, that's part of the mandatory training. Doctors gets to train on real people too, medicine schools go to great length to procure bodies for training purpose. In programming, one would be lucky to get any sort of test environment.

thisiszilff 7y ago
Especially a test environment that accurately mirrors a production environment.
blinds 7y ago
> A dentist gets to try on fake tooth before drilling a real tooth. Are you saying you went straight to writing production code before you ever studied any software engineering? Sounds unusual for practitioners of an industry endowed with such a critical responsibility. A dentist can easily kill someone through malpractice... There's no code review, there's no test environment, and there are always difficult (often time-sensitive) decisions to make and difficult people to deal with. If all you know is estimating story points and merging pull requests to make your burn-down chart look pretty you probably shouldn't be so confident that your profession is more difficult or more superior than one that you have no understanding of.
- user5994461 7y ago
  A software engineer can easily kill tens of people with a typo. Medical devices have a ton of software and it's only increasing. Medical staff have the equivalent of code review and test environments. Non-routine operations have always multiple people in the room. They have bodies to practice on. Do yourself a favour and drop the attitude. Medical and software industries both have some very difficult jobs.

thisiszilff 7y ago

Especially a test environment that accurately mirrors a production environment.

blinds 7y ago

> A dentist gets to try on fake tooth before drilling a real tooth. Are you saying you went straight to writing production code before you ever studied any software engineering? Sounds unusual for practitioners of an industry endowed with such a critical responsibility. A dentist can easily kill someone through malpractice... There's no code review, there's no test environment, and there are always difficult (often time-sensitive) decisions to make and difficult people to deal with. If all you know is estimating story points and merging pull requests to make your burn-down chart look pretty you probably shouldn't be so confident that your profession is more difficult or more superior than one that you have no understanding of.

user5994461 7y ago
A software engineer can easily kill tens of people with a typo. Medical devices have a ton of software and it's only increasing. Medical staff have the equivalent of code review and test environments. Non-routine operations have always multiple people in the room. They have bodies to practice on. Do yourself a favour and drop the attitude. Medical and software industries both have some very difficult jobs.